The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Lowestoft, England. 1t belongs to a lady who
| has taught il to repeat several words and
| phrases, and to initiate successfully the notes
| of other Gagged birds
PARIs1ANs are wearing dress suits made in
one piece. The waistcoat has no back the shirt
consists of front, the cuffs are stitched into the
coat sleeves, and single set of buttons fixes on
| the whole contrlvance.
| THE village of Clifton, L. L, has been troubled
with band of tramp dogs which during the
past two weeks, have killed over 200 fancy
| chickens. A grand hunt for the dogs was ex-
| pected to come off some night this week.
| APPARENTLY Texas has a genuine case of wild
man. He appeared perfectly naked, carrying
| an ak and chasing every person he saw. He
| laughed "a wild, hoarse laugh and straddling
| cross-tie hoated down the Dublin river, yell
| ing and laughing. That night ne was captured
| in a fodder house and now lies IN the Fort Worth
jail.
PoMPEY, who for thirteen years has been an
| honored resident of the Philadelphia Zoo, died
| on Wednesday in the presence of a crowd col
| lected TO see the animals fed. For four years
Pompey, who was fine specimen of the African
! lion has been stone blind but otherwise in good
| health He was 30 years old, four years above
| the average life of the Gagged lion.
WEALTHY SYNDICATE is about to buy up the
Dismal Swamp canal, build a railroad on its
| banks, open its locks, and thus open up and
| drain the great Dismal Swamp, Capt. Henry
| Roberts, of Norfolk, Va will head the enter
| prise as civil engineer. One million acres of
| alluvial soil will thus be reclaimed and add to
| the wealth of that great agricultural region.
SALMON which used to be so plentiful in New
| Jersey waters early in this century that the
! farmers used them as a common form of food
| for the farm help, have been almost unknown
| in those waters of later years. One, weighing
| twenty-four pounds, caught by Port Mon
mouth the other daV in Rarita0 lnV is said
| to have been the first caught there in twenty
| years.
| A CORRESPONDENT says that in Mexico milk is
MIXED directly from the COW at the big diaries
into the cooks pitcher, thus insuring its pure
ness. But the Mexican milkmen are not so guile
| less as the correspondent thinks they are. Many
of them have a bottle filed with water concealed
under their cloakS, and while milking, they
manage by means of q rubber tube 20 transfer
goodly portion of the water into the milk pitcher
A TELEPHONE apparatus, so simple in con-
suction not to cost more than half crown,
has been invented in Paris, which can be fitted
to the electric wire of the ordinary ringing ap-
DaratuS at front DOORS in interior rooms of
houses, everywhere, in short, where the ordinary
electric buttons are used, by means Of which it
will be possible to give and receive Instructions
to know who is knocking at the door, to COM
municate, in short, by speaking as well as by
ringing.
WHEN Jack Burke and Paddy Carroll were at
dinner in Burl1e's residence in Chicago, the other
evening, they heard a noise in the basement.
and Jack went down stairs Just in time to catch
big negro, who had forced the rear door. The
intruder showed fight. but only for a minute
The next found him fiat on his back, the effect
of a terrific blow inflicted his jaw by the
prize fighters left. When Burke was tired ex-
ercising on the burglar Carroll put in a few hard
knocks and then they permitted the negro to
go. He was very badly whipped man.
REFERRING to the offers made to college
students to become professional base ball play
ers, the New Haven Nelcs says: ''Messrs. Stage
and Damn have already received handsome
offers, as has Mr.. Hutchinson, who was graduated
few years ago; and we believe it is an open
| secret that not long after graduation Mr.. W. C.
Camp received an offer of $1,000 season if he
would take charge of the New York team. How
| odd it seems to hear of a young undergraduate
| or graduate, the ink on whose sheepskin is
| scarcely dry. stepping into bigger salary than
| President Dwight's"
| Mrs. MARY EDMINsoN and her little daughter
| went fishing near SomeTville, Ala, the other
| day Mrs. Edminson kneeled by the creek and
bent down to drink from the running water,
| when large water moccasin bit her in the left
side of the neck sinking its fangs deep and fast
| in her flesh, so she had to pull it loose. Her
| daughter helped her up the bank of the creek
| and upon her mother saying that she was very
| sick, left her and ran for help When the child
| got back with her father they found the mother
| about 200 yards from where She was dead She
| had tried to go to the house, but died on the
| way.
REV. JOHN F. CLYMER Methodist preacher in
| Boston, preached last Sunday on 'Boston's Re
ception to the Hawaiian Queen" The text was
from Matthew xii, 10: THE Queen from the
| South shall rise up in the Judgment with this
| generation and shall condemn it; for she came
| from the utternost parts of the earth to hear
| the wisdom of solomon; and, behold greater
| than Solomon is here" The preacher, accord
ing to the report of the Boston Post, likened the
| Queen of Sheba, who travelled far to see the
| splendor of Solomons court, to Queen Kapio-
| lan who came from her home in the far dis
| tant islands TO Boston to see the splendor and
| the civilization OF this world"
| PATRICK GILLIAN, age ID, of Tompkinsville S.
| l., was arrested on Saturday for driving a mule
which had sore breast. He was employed by
Brady & Sullivan as a driver, and at first re-
| fused TO drive the mule. Mr.. Sullivan, it is
| stated insisted, and the boy consented with re-
| luctance. Justice Walter Coyle fined the boy
| $40 and costs; which amounted to So 80. The boy
was unable to pay the fine, and his employer re-
fusing to pay it for him, he was sent TO Jail for
| thirteen and q half days. The boys mother
| who is dependent upon his earnings, is widow
| and has several young children in n destitute
condition. Several prominent gentlemen on
| Staten Island, who have taken an interest in the
case, will Investigate the Justices right to i'm
| pose the fine on the boy, who obliged to
| drive the mule, instead of upon the owner.
| A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Inter Ocean,
| in a description of the Garfield home at Mentor
O., writes of bound copies of the principal dailies
| throughout the United States for the year of
the Garfield campaign, and finely bound scrap
| books containing extracts from papers, great
| and small of which he counted sixty-four;
| scores and scores of substantially bound books
| labeled Letters received and scores more
| labeled Letters sent, files of campaign car
| toons, immense collections of photographs
Illustrating every event in the career of Garfield
| and q collection Of thirty more canes with
| heavy gold heads and elaborate carving One
| cane, TOO big to be useful, is mass of inscrip-
| tons on the subject of temperance. Another is
| a withered sugar cane, bound together at the
| joints with massive bands of gold and supplied
| with handsome gold tassel at the head.
BY order of the German Crown Prince, Prof
Virchow has recently made a physiognomic ex-
animation of the skulls of those members Of
the Hohenzolern family whose remains are de-
posted in the vaults Of the Berlin Dome, for
the purpose of discovering certain characteristic
traits, such as are known to exist in the Haps-
| burg and Bourbon families. The result of these
| studies IS, OF course, not to be made public
Certain connoiSseurs declare that such a family
| trait is not discernable in the Hohenzollerns al
| though certain physiognomies repeat them.
| selves frequently, some representing the late
| King Frederick William ". the others the
| present Emperor William. There is for in